Four naxals were arrested from two separate places in the insurgency–hit Giridih district, while two ultras were nabbed from Dewari police station forest area and another two were apprehended at Barkhutia forest from Chakai police station limits, said SP Giridih S.K. Jha on Monday.
One 315 loaded rifle,170 live cartridges, one local made pistol,315 cartridges, and a cache of Maoist-related items, including material used in making explosives, were recovered from them, police said.
Acting on specific inputs, a composite squad of 7th battalion of CRPF personnel, QRT in 2nd command officer Ravi Kumar under leader ship of ASP Deepak Kumar, and Officer-in charge Sunit Kumar launched a search operation in the interiors of forest area under Dewari police station limits, located around 30 km from here, SP, Surendra Kumar Jha said.
On spotting the patrolling team, the two rebels who were coming for collection of levy tried to escape but were caught after short chase in between Tetaria and Bhatuakura forest, the SP said.
Huge cartridges, loaded rifle, Maoists banners and other items were recovered from their possession, he said .
The cadres later were identified as Sanjay Hansda, and Sukhdeo Murmu, who were belonging to Sidhu Koda’s squad. The cadres were interrogated to gather about two others rebels who were salted near Barkhutia forest under Chakai police station with explosives and arms.
The next team of CRPF of 7th battalion and 215th battalion and district police was out on search operation in Barkhutia forest, when they spotted two suspects who were having with arms and explosives, he said.
During the interrogation, the trio identified as Prakash Murmu, and Ambu Marandi admitted their involvement with the banned outfit as member of Sidhu Koda,s dasta .They were all four allegedly involved in case no 41/11,125/15,25/16,08/17,135/17and case no 129/17 in Khaira police station .